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Yeah on Kaggle I found myself getting routinely outperformed by people with scripts that simply ran a gradient boosted decision tree and nothing else. And yet t
by bllguo 10y ago
Yeah on Kaggle I found myself getting routinely outperformed by people with scripts that simply ran a gradient boosted decision tree and nothing else. And yet the topic was never mentioned in my modeling and stats courses!
- cshenton 10y agoThat's because it's practically new. Tianqi Chen authored the R package for it (original release Aug 2015) and actually posts about it on the Kaggle forums quite frequently.